Time: 17.00, April 25th, 2008Venue: 232, AUCA (Main Building)Language: Russian(Translation into English will be provided ONLY ifrequested in advance)

Synopsis: The Sociology of the social sciences is a new and fast developingdirection in contemporary sociology. This direction aims at the study ofsocial sciences as a specific social institution deriving from the basicfoundations of society. These foundations exert a deep influence upon thestructure and the system of the social sciences in all aspects - political,economic, gender, cultural, etc. At the same time, in this case we have a"reverse connection": the social sciences themselves influence on socialinstitutions, changing them in some direction. The Central Asian countriescan be considered a very interesting "application ground" for the sociologyof social sciences and, studying of the world of Central Asian socialsciences, this sociology is able to get a lot of original returns. We canpoint out three key directions of the work of sociology of the socialsciences in Central Asia: firstly, this sociology can address the role ofsocio-cultural factors in the evolution of social sciences in Central Asia;secondly, such sociology should concentrate its research interest on therole "internal" and "external" impact in Central Asian social sciences;thirdly, the sociology of the social sciences should investigate differentproblems of scientific stratification in the Central Asian social sciencesand reveal the key powers determining this stratification.

Bio. Dr. Andrey Orehov is a Kandidat Nauk of Philosophical Sciences,Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanitarian and Social Sciences atthe Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow. Dr. Orehov is theauthor of numerous scientific articles and is a member of the number ofscholarly societies such as the Russian Philosophical Society, RussianSociety of Sociologists and International Sociological Association.

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